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MIDNIGHT
METROPOLIS.

The places we trust most can become the ones we fear. Elevators, motels, empty corridors, familiar streets and the open road all have their stories. These are the ones best read with the lights on.

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THE COLLECTION / 01–06

Ordinary places. Unordinary horrors.

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MIDNIGHT METROPOLIS / 01AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

The Places Between

Lucas Drake & Guy Farson

A condemned apartment tower still has residents upstairs. Beneath a transit junction, electrical faults begin following a pattern the maintenance crew cannot explain. Elsewhere in the city, a hospital floor, a parking level, and an unlikely indoor garden turn ordinary routes into dangerous choices. Across five tales of urban horror, the people who know these buildings best discover that familiar doors, corridors, and service spaces can lead somewhere profoundly wrong. Every location has its own rules, and none of the people caught inside can be certain that the way back is still where they left it.

Stories in this volumeThe Last Elevator, Maintenance Tunnel 14, The Quiet Floor, Parking Level Gray, Glass Orchard
Official Midnight Metropolis: Something Lives Here book cover
MIDNIGHT METROPOLIS / 02AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

Something Lives Here

Lucas Drake & Guy Farson

A crowd that seems to belong somewhere else, a troubling presence in the rooms above, and something concealed beneath a perfectly ordinary lawn are only the beginning. These five stories follow people who expect the places around them to behave: homes should shelter their occupants, public spaces should hold the people who enter them, and familiar surfaces should stay reassuringly solid. But a misplaced sound, an unexpected visitor, or a pattern that refuses to disappear can turn domestic routine into an investigation nobody wanted. In *Something Lives Here*, the most unsettling question isn't whether a place is occupied. It's who—or what—may have been there all along.

Stories in this volumeThe Borrowed Crowd, The Tenant Above, Under the Lawn, Surface Tension, Static Animals
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MIDNIGHT METROPOLIS / 03AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

Lone Pine

Lucas Drake & Guy Farson

In Lone Pine, California, the stark beauty of the Alabama Hills makes it easy to believe that anything extraordinary must be a trick of the light. Then firefighters investigate smoke that cannot be found, an old saloon becomes the starting point for a disturbing tale, and the restoration of a once-grand hotel reveals troubles no contractor budgeted for. A strangely painted granite landmark and an isolated camping trip offer their own reasons to dread the dark. Five stories draw on the town's film history, remote desert roads, mountain shadows, and the uneasy feeling that the landscape has been watching its visitors for longer than anyone can remember.

Stories in this volumeMovie Flat, The Devil on the Flatbed, The Restoration, Nightmare Rock, Rescue Man
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MIDNIGHT METROPOLIS / 04AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

King Cobra Motel

Guy Farson & Lucas Drake

At the King Cobra Motel, a weathered seaside property in the Philippines, the rooms are inexpensive, the grounds are imperfect, and the complaints are not always what they first appear to be. Guests arrive with cameras, luggage, private anxieties, and expectations of an ordinary stay, while staff members deal with disturbances that don't fit neatly into the guest register. Five connected-by-place tales explore a motel where a lost phone, a path around a mound of earth, sounds overhead, and stories from the hills can all lead to unwelcome discoveries. Check-in may be routine. Understanding what you've checked into is another matter.

Stories in this volumeNo Bugs in Room Three, Poor Baby, Tabi-Tabi, Roof Dog, Smoking Giants
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MIDNIGHT METROPOLIS / 05AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

Monterey

Guy Farson & Lucas Drake

Along California's Monterey coast, strange lights under the bay give a skeptical journalist an interview she cannot easily dismiss. At a struggling brewery, ordinary pressures deepen into unease. Elsewhere, a man pursuing stolen money heads into lonely country, and a radio operator watches storm warnings accumulate along a treacherous shoreline. Five stories take readers from waterfront streets and mountain roads to hidden workshops and the headland at Point Sur. The sea, the weather, and the region's restless human ambitions make excellent cover for mysteries that are anything but tourist attractions.

Stories in this volumeThe Lights Below, The Last Call, The Watching Men, The Last Workshop, The Light at Point Sur
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MIDNIGHT METROPOLIS / 06IN EDITORIAL

The Sky Has Teeth

Lucas Drake & Graeme Saeleir

At an isolated observatory, researchers notice an anomaly that appears to have come from beyond the familiar sky. The equipment supplies measurements; the people interpreting them must decide how far those measurements can be trusted, and what it would mean to bring the evidence closer. An extraordinary discovery promises answers to questions scientists have spent entire careers asking, yet each practical decision—to investigate, preserve, transport, or examine—introduces risks that cannot be evaluated from a distance. *The Sky Has Teeth* follows that dangerous gap between observing the unknown and believing it has been understood.

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